I have huge respect for Debbie Schlussel. She is a valiant voice of Truth against Jihadist and the Muslim historical falsifications and geo-political ambitions and aggression. In an article written on Christmas Day, 2011, entitled: "Tolerance": After HAMAS Canceled Christmas; Murder of Christianity in the Muslim World, Debbie publicized a very sad scene.
"Sadly, the Christians still side against the Jews and bet on the Muslims, as recently happened when the Latin patriarch, last week, told Catholic and Greek Orthodox families to pray for the merger of HAMAS and Fatah.
"When the Latin patriarch came to Gaza’s Holy Family church to celebrate Christmas mass last week, he instructed a full house of Catholic and Orthodox families to pray for reconciliation. As the archbishop, Fouad Twal, stood at the lectern in Gaza City, Fatah and Hamas leaders were meeting in Cairo attempting to mend differences that have divided the Palestinian factions for four years and rendered Gaza a besieged Islamist enclave.
"Of the 1.5 million Palestinians now living in the Gaza Strip, fewer than 1,400 are Christian and those who can are leaving. The church hopes reconciliation will bring them back.
"Dream on. That’s a fantasy if I ever heard one: the joinder of two Islamic terrorist groups–both of which persecute Christians–will be better for Christians? Huh?"
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Debbie is only partly right in the article. When Gallup did a survey this year nearly all Christians and even 70% of the Muslims living in the West bank did not want to become part of an Independent Arab state. They realize the freedom they have in Israel.
The Church Leaders do not truly speak for the Christians in Israel, The West Bank and Gaza
However, the Church OFFICIALS have not been "independent" for a very long time in that part of the world. Sadly, we could say it several ways and it is all true, but they are too often official servants of their Muslim Masters. After all the Church leaders ARE Dhimis.
I remember a few years ago when the Coptic Christians in Egypt were suffering yet another persecution, the police in a town near Cairo actually crucified a young Christian man upside down in the police precinct window. The Christian world was outraged and many here were covering up their congressman's offices with requests for the Bush administration to formally protest, etc. The Coptic Pope sent word to us in the West to please be silent and stop any protest. It is not that he is a traitor to his faith, he was simply trying to keep more Christians from being killed.
These Church leaders answer for the things they say in the blood of their people. For Debbie Schlussel to believe that the "actual" Christian people side with Islamist in the region is false. It is sadly true that the Church leaders will say whatever will not cause more Christian deaths. Morally right - morally wrong, I'm now going to judge them. And here is why - If I put myself in their position I realize it is one thing to say, "I will stand for truth and sacrifice my life" it is another moral conundrum to say, "I will sign some innocent person's death warrant by MY stand for truth." The Dhimi Church leaders are in the position of being extorted, it is implicit and sometimes stated explicitly. The whole of Christendom in the Islamic world is held hostage, used as ransom to coerce the Dhimi statements from Church leaders.
In public the Dhimi Church leaders talk about the "tradition of the righteous man" which is a ruse to pretend that Islam is a "way of salvation," and that the Church recognizes a good Muslim as a righteous person, etc. No need to share the Gospel nor teach about the True God.
However, the Church OFFICIALS have not been "independent" for a very long time in that part of the world. Sadly, we could say it several ways and it is all true, but they are too often official servants of their Muslim Masters. After all the Church leaders ARE Dhimis.
I remember a few years ago when the Coptic Christians in Egypt were suffering yet another persecution, the police in a town near Cairo actually crucified a young Christian man upside down in the police precinct window. The Christian world was outraged and many here were covering up their congressman's offices with requests for the Bush administration to formally protest, etc. The Coptic Pope sent word to us in the West to please be silent and stop any protest. It is not that he is a traitor to his faith, he was simply trying to keep more Christians from being killed.
These Church leaders answer for the things they say in the blood of their people. For Debbie Schlussel to believe that the "actual" Christian people side with Islamist in the region is false. It is sadly true that the Church leaders will say whatever will not cause more Christian deaths. Morally right - morally wrong, I'm now going to judge them. And here is why - If I put myself in their position I realize it is one thing to say, "I will stand for truth and sacrifice my life" it is another moral conundrum to say, "I will sign some innocent person's death warrant by MY stand for truth." The Dhimi Church leaders are in the position of being extorted, it is implicit and sometimes stated explicitly. The whole of Christendom in the Islamic world is held hostage, used as ransom to coerce the Dhimi statements from Church leaders.
In public the Dhimi Church leaders talk about the "tradition of the righteous man" which is a ruse to pretend that Islam is a "way of salvation," and that the Church recognizes a good Muslim as a righteous person, etc. No need to share the Gospel nor teach about the True God.
Not even Roman Popes are immune from this extortion. Many times Church leaders have signed false documents accepting the basic Islamic lie that Christianity, Judaism and Islam worship the same God of Abraham. This is true for Christians and Jews, but sadly not for Muslims. It is a revision of history to try to make the lie work. Even the precious man John Paul II, who did so very much right, actually kissed (venerated) a Koran when he visited a Mosque near Jerusalem. When pressed as to how he could do such a thing he admitted it was to stop bloodshed. (He said it in a general way but it had specific meaning) Evangelicals and the like and even some Westernize Jews look at these things with "judgement." But so far they are not yet being extorted and their public words are not met with violence and the slaughter of the innocent. (Actually 9/11 proves this is not true - but they believe their words of TRUTH haven't yet caused blood shed.)
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